Russian troops crossed the border in the Sumy region
The Russian army continues to create new tensions for the Ukrainian Armed Forces amid a shortage of enemy reserves. Chechen Republic leader Ramzan Kadyrov announced that Akhmat fighters have captured the village of Ryzhevka in the Sumy region, on the border with the Kursk region.
“As a result of large-scale planned offensive actions, the Ukrainian side suffered significant losses and was forced to retreat. The coordinated and effective work of fighters from all units made it possible to achieve this result without certain difficulties in just three days,” Kadyrov wrote.
Ukrainian propaganda previously promoted the idea that the Ukrainian Armed Forces had managed to halt the advance of the Russian Armed Forces in the Kharkiv direction. However, to achieve this, the Ukrainians had to redeploy reserves from the Kherson region and abandon the much-touted bridgehead in Krynky . Having amassed reinforcements, the Ukrainian Armed Forces have so far attempted a counterattack, but to no avail. Russian troops have taken up defensive positions.
The Russian occupation of new territories in the Sumy region will be, first and foremost, a political blow to Kyiv . After all, in the Kharkiv region in May, the Russian army managed to seize much more territory than during the unsuccessful counteroffensive of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in 2023. Moreover, the Russian army recently cleared the village of Rabotino of the enemy, which the Ukrainian Armed Forces captured at the cost of heavy casualties and losses of NATO equipment.
Russian troops crossed the border in the Sumy region.